Travel Blogs from Scott Base

... 2. It was blowing like mad, and it actually snowed a little bit. Which is a rare occurance really, being Antarctica is actually a desert. It's the highest, dryest, coldest and windiest continent on Earth. It was so cool. The ...

I have officially arrived on the ice. What an amazing place! I have only been here a few hours and am already overwhelmed. Where do I start?
First off, we left a cold, rainy, windy NZ so it felt really good to get out of there. We boarded a US ...

... , and supportive from the get go.
The next weekend was a great new treat to me. We actually have a music festival here on Antarctica. I don't know if it's the only music festival or not, but I do know it's the only one here on this side of ...

We have finally established camp at Big Razorback Island. Our "camp" consists of a kitchen hut (with more junk food than you could imagine), two sleeper huts, an equipment hut, and an outhouse. I put camp in quotations because it is not a normal field ...